LOL I don't know whether to believe Nigel or not! But in this case, I think it's true.
Don't take this too seriously Nigel, 'cause I like you a lot!!!!!!
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Wasn't the story adapted into 'The Moon In The Millpond' (Brer Rabbit) and a Noddy story where Noddy tries to catch the moon in a fishing net? Without the contraband, obviously!!
'Oh voice of Spring of Youth
hearts mad delight,
Sing on, sing on, and when the sun is gone
I'll warm me with your echoes
through the night.'
Rob Houghton wrote:Wasn't the story adapted into 'The Moon In The Millpond' (Brer Rabbit) and a Noddy story where Noddy tries to catch the moon in a fishing net? Without the contraband, obviously!!
Didn't Bimbo and Topsy do that too?. Try to catch the moon in a pail of water? And Hammy Hamster in tales of the riverbank?
Am I the only one who thought Moonraker's username referred to the Bond film?
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I'm pretty sure Brer Rabbit tried to trick at least one of the other animals into catching the moon from the lake as well!
EDIT: I didn't originally see your post, Rob, where you referred to this as well!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)
The Bond movie was so-named because one of Ian Fleming's James Bond novels was called "Moonraker". Now I haven't read the original novel, just seen the film. But my understanding is that the plot of the novel has almost no connection to the plot of the film, apart from the fact that the villain is named "Sir Hugo Drax".
The previous Bond film to Moonraker was "The Spy Who Loved Me" (which also had almost no resemblance to the novel that it was based on). The next Bond film after "The Spy Who Loved Me" was going to be "For Your Eyes Only", but then "Star Wars" was released, and film audiences became fascinated with science fiction, so the Bond movie folks decided instead to make Moonraker as the next film, making sure to give it a real outer-space related script.
But when Ian Fleming titled the original 1955 novel "Moonraker", he was definitely alluding to the same folk tale that we are talking about here!
IceMaiden wrote:
Am I the only one who thought Moonraker's username referred to the Bond film?
Not at all. Way back when I first joined here I thought the same until I learned the truth. Which goes to show that you always learn something new through associating with Enid Blyton's world.
"What a lot of trouble one avoids if one refuses to have anything to do with the common herd. To have no job, to devote ones life to literature, is the most wonderful thing in the world. - Cicero
Not being either a James Bond fan or a native of Wiltshire, I had no idea what it meant either way!
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It was a nuisance. An adventure was one thing - but an adventure without anything to eat was quite another thing. That wouldn't do at all. (The Valley of Adventure)